Walt Whitman Quotes

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Walt Whitman

Profession : Poet

Birth : May 31, 1819

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

Walt Whitman

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

Walt Whitman

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

Walt Whitman

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

Walt Whitman

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

Walt Whitman

Produce great men, the rest follows.

Walt Whitman

If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.

Walt Whitman

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

Walt Whitman

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

Walt Whitman

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

Walt Whitman

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

Walt Whitman

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

Walt Whitman

The real war will never get in the books.

Walt Whitman

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

Walt Whitman

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

Walt Whitman

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

Walt Whitman

I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

Walt Whitman

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

Walt Whitman

Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

Walt Whitman